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What About The 18 Attorneys General?*
Nearly a year ago I posted Shame on Lawyers And Attorneys General The Likes of Sean Reyes. The post focused primarily on the professional misconduct of 18 state attorneys general, and that of Utah’s in particular. In the aftermath of the 2020 presidential election, The 18 filed and formally endorsed on behalf of their states the “baseless legal effort by Texas [Attorney General Ken Paxton] that s[ought] to delay certification of the presidential electors in four battleground states that Mr. Trump lost” and ultimately overturn the election. The 18 consist of Paxton who filed the Complaint and the 17 attorneys general who joined the Brief as Amicus Curiae claiming their respective states’ full support of the frivolous Bill of Complaint and Motion to File Bill of Complaint filed in the United States Supreme Court.
It was only after dozens of failed lawsuits raising the same specious allegations in state and federal courts that Paxton — who was and remains under indictment for alleged securities crimes and recently was credibility accused by high-level assistants of “bribery, abuse of office and other crimes” — filed the Complaint in the United States Supreme Court.
Reporting suggests some state bar associations are beginning to investigate and consider holding lawyers accountable for the misconduct and unprofessionalism they undertook in the wake of the…